# Deaths in June 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## June 2002
### 1

* Michael Alexander, 65, British diplomat (ambassador to Austria, ambassador to NATO).
* Tom Austin, 78, Australian politician.
* Hansie Cronje, 32, South African cricketer, plane crash.
* Joseph Nanven Garba, 58, Nigerian soldier, diplomat and politician.
* James Gathers, 71, American Olympic track and field athlete.
* Tibor Scitovsky, 91, Hungarian-American economist.

### 2

* Boyd Bennett, 77, American rockabilly songwriter and singer ("Seventeen", "My Boy, Flat Top"), lung ailment.
* Herman Cohen, 76, American film producer (I Was a Teenage Werewolf), esophageal cancer.
* Tim Lopes, 51, Brazilian investigative journalist and television producer, tortured.
* Hugo van Lawick, 65, Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer.
* Konrad Wirnhier, 64, German sports shooter (bronze medal in 1968 mixed skeet, gold medal in 1972 mixed skeet).

### 3

* Charles Antrobus, 69, Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, leukemia.
* Cecil Hankins, 80, American gridiron football player.
* Fran Rogel, 74, American football player (Penn State, Pittsburgh Steelers), Parkinson's disease.
* Edward Somers, 73, New Zealand jurist and member of the Privy Council.
* Lew Wasserman, 89, American talent agent and studio executive(Universal Studios, Decca Records, MCA), complications from a stroke.
* Sam Whipple, 41, American actor (Seven Days, The Larry Sanders Show, Open All Night), cancer.
* Brian Woledge, 97, English scholar of medieval French language and literature.

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* Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 89, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (1963–1968, 1980–1985).
* John W. Cunningham, 86, American author.
* Ann Henderson, 60, Australian politician.
* Pyotr Ivashutin, 92, Soviet Army General and head of the state.
* Bob Lackey, 53, American professional basketball player (Marquette University, New York Nets), cancer.

### 5

* Curtis Amy, 74, American jazz saxophonist.
* Carlos Berlanga, 42, Spanish musician and painter, liver disease.
* Carmelo Bernaola, 72, Spanish composer and clarinetist.
* Michel Bernholc, 60, French composer, arranger and producer, suicide by gunshot.
* Gaston Geens, 70, Belgian politician, Minister-President of Flanders (1981 -1992).
* Aden Abdullahi Nur, Somali politician and army general.
* Truck Parham, 91, American jazz double-bassist.
* Gwen Plumb, 89, Australian performer and entertainer.
* Dee Dee Ramone, 50, American musician, founding member of The Ramones, heroin overdose.
* M. Sivasithamparam, 78, Sri Lankan Tamil politician.

### 6

* Peter Cowan, 87, Australian writer.
* Robbin Crosby, 42, American guitarist (Ratt), AIDS-related complications and heroin overdose.
* Bernard Destremau, 85, French tennis player, diplomat and politician.
* Yat Malmgren, 86, Swedish dancer and acting teacher.
* Shanta Shelke, 79, Indian poet and writer in the Marathi language, cancer.
* Holly Solomon, 68, American collector of contemporary art and art dealer, complications from pneumonia.
* Betty Winkler, 88, American radio actor.

### 7

* Wayne Cody, 65, American sportscaster.
* Donald S. Fredrickson, 77, American medical researcher.
* Signe Hasso, 86, Swedish actress, writer, and composer, pneumonia.
* Rodney Hilton, 85, British medieval historian.
* Basappa Danappa Jatti, 89, Indian politician and acting president of India (1977), kidney cancer.
* James Luisi, 73, American basketball player and actor, cancer.
* Lilian, Princess of Réthy, 85, British-Belgian royal.
* Anselmo Sule, 68, Chilean politician.
* Edmond Séchan, 82, French cinematographer and film director.

### 8

* Ray Alexander, 77, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist, complications from elective surgery.
* George Mudie, 86, Jamaican cricketer.
* Antonio Oppes, 85, Italian Olympic show jumping rider.
* Lino Tonti, 81, Italian motorcycle engineer.

### 9

* Elena Burke, 74, Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads, cancer.
* Paul Chubb, 53, Australian actor (The Coca-Cola Kid, Stan and George's New Life, The Roly Poly Man, Dirty Deeds), post operative cardiomyopathy complications.
* Hans Janmaat, 67, Dutch far-right politician, heart failure.
* Peter Mokaba, 53, South African politician and political activist, acute pneumonia and respiratory problems.
* Alexander Molodchy, 81, Soviet long-range pilot during World War II.
* Maxwell M. Rabb, 91, American lawyer and diplomat.
* Alexander Vlasov, 70, Soviet/Russian politician.
* James Wheaton, 78, American actor, heart attack.

### 10

* Dick Brittenden, 82, New Zealand cricket writer.
* Louis Carré, 77, Belgian football player and coach.
* John Gotti, 61, Italian-American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family, throat cancer.
* Maury Travis, 36, American murderer and serial killer, suicide by hanging.
* John Wansbrough, 74, American historian and professor.
* Benjamin Ward, 75, first African American New York City Police Commissioner.

### 11

* Tahseen Bashir, 77, Egyptian diplomat, spokesman for Gamal Nasser and Anwar Sadat.
* Regīna Ezera, 71, Polish-Latvian author.
* Bertrand Goldschmidt, 89, French chemist, nuclear physicist and diplomat.
* Margaret E. Lynn, 78, American theater director.
* Jürgen Kraft, 50, German racing cyclist.
* Robert Roswell Palmer, 93, American historian and writer.

### 12

* Bill Blass, 79, American fashion designer, esophageal cancer.
* Jean de Beaumont, 98, French IOC sports administrator and Olympic sport shooter (men's team shooting at the 1924 Summer Olympics).
* John Tileston Edsall, 99, American biochemist.
* José Serra Gil, 78, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Jeong Seung-hwa, 73, South Korean officer.

### 13

* Guilford Dudley, 94, American businessman and diplomat (U.S. Ambassador to Denmark).
* Vincent Fago, 87, American comic-book artist and writer, stomach cancer.
* Stanley L. Greigg, 71, American Watergate break-in victim.
* John Hope, 83, American meteorologist, complications of an open heart surgery.
* R. W. B. Lewis, 84, American literary scholar and critic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
* Ante Mladinić, 72, Croatian football manager.
* Hideo Murata, 73, Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer.
* Ralph Shapey, 81, American composer and conductor.
* Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Polish-American writer of children's books (Shadow of a Bull).

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* Albert Band, 78, American film director and film producer, frequently collaborated with John Huston.
* Rino Benedetti, 73, Italian road bicycle racer.
* José Bonilla, 34, Venezuelan boxer, asthma attack.
* Lily Carlstedt, 76, Danish Olympic javelin thrower (bronze medal at 1948 women's javelin throw, 1952 women's javelin throw).
* George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry, 68, British peer and politician.
* W. Nelson Francis, 91, American author, linguist and university professor, scholar of the English language.
* June Jordan, 65, Caribbean-American poet, essayist and activist, breast cancer.

### 15

* Said Belqola, 45, Moroccan referee of the 1998 FIFA World Cup final, cancer.
* Silas Bissell, 60, American activist and member of The Weatherman, brain cancer.
* Mutal Burhonov, 86, Soviet/Uzbek composer.
* Choi Hong-hi, 83, South Korean Army general and martial artist, purported "father of Taekwon-Do", cancer.
* Big Mello, 33, American rapper from Houston, Texas, traffic collision.
* Hideo Murota, 64, Japanese actor.
* Dick White, 70, English football player.
* Robert Whitehead, 86, Canadian theatre producer, winner of four Tony Awards.

### 16

* Louis Giguère, 90, Canadian politician.
* Barbara Goalen, 81, British model.
* Kiço Ngjela, 82, Albanian politician.
* Harry Oakman, 96, Australian horticulturalist and writer.

### 17

* Bill Adair, 89, American baseball manager and coach (Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos).
* Louis George Alexander, 70, British teacher and author (New Concept English), a prolific writer of English-language text books.
* Stein Ove Berg, 53, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and journalist.
* J. Carter Brown, 67, American director of the National Gallery of Art from 1969 to 1992, multiple myeloma.
* Willie Davenport, 59, American Olympic hurdler (1968 gold medal, 1976 bronze medal), heart attack.
* John C. Davies II, 82, American politician (U.S. Representative for New York's 35th congressional district).
* Dobri Dzhurov, 86, Bulgarian politician and military leader.
* Francisco Escudero, 89, Basque composer.
* Zora Kolínska, 60, Slovak actress, singer, and presenter.
* Yuri Korneev, 65, Russian basketball player.
* Roger Mackay, 46, Australian golfer, lymphoma.
* Antony C. Sutton, 77, British-American writer, economist, and academic.
* Fritz Walter, 81, German football player, captain of 1954 World Cup winners.

### 18

* Nancy Addison, 54, American soap actress, cancer.
* Naseem Banu, 85, Indian actress.
* Jack Buck, 77, American sportscaster, best known for announcing MLB games of the St. Louis Cardinals, Parkinson's disease.
* Nilima Ibrahim, 81, Bangladeshi writer.
* Jack Jenkins, 59, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Los Angeles Dodgers).
* Walter Villa, 58, Italian four-time Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion, heart attack.

### 19

* Ross Carter, 88, American gridiron football player (University of Oregon, Chicago Cardinals).
* Margaret Johnston, 87, Australian-British actress.
* Robert W. Lenski, 76, American screenwriter.
* Pascal Mazzotti, 78, French actor (The King and the Mockingbird).
* Dmitry Oboznenko, 71, Soviet Russian painter and graphic artist.
* Count Flemming of Rosenborg, 80, Danish prince.
* Johnny Strzykalski, 80, American gridiron football player.
* N. F. Varghese, 53, Indian actor.

### 20

* Carlos Badion, 66, Filipino basketball player (basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics, basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics), heart attack.
* Heinz Bigler, 76, Swiss football player.
* Erwin Chargaff, 96, Austro-Hungarian biochemist.
* Fred Drake, 44, American musician, lung cancer.
* Timothy Findley, 71, Canadian author (The Wars, Headhunter, Pilgrim, Elizabeth Rex).
* Irene MacDonald, 68, Canadian athlete, sports executive and broadcaster.
* Tinus Osendarp, 86, Dutch sprinter (two-time bronze medal at 1936 Summer Olympics: men's 100 metres, men's 200 metres).
* Enrique Regüeiferos, 53, Cuban boxer (silver medal in light welterweight boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics).
* Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi, 75, Indian scholar.
* Stanisław Trepczyński, 78, Polish diplomat.
* John Wirth, 66, American professor and historian of Latin American studies.

### 21

* Sidney Armus, 77, American actor, cancer.
* Matt Dennis, 88, American singer, pianist and composer ("Angel Eyes", "Everything Happens to Me", "Violets for Your Furs").
* Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, 80, British jurist.
* Wladimiro Panizza, 57, Italian road bicycle racer.
* Kurt Seibt, 94, East German politician.
* Berl Senofsky, 76, American classical violinist and teacher, lung disease.
* Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 70, Australian painter.

### 22

* Chang Cheh, 79, Hong Kong film director, pneumonia.
* David O. Cooke, 81, American civil servant, Director of Administration and Management at the U.S. Department of Defense.
* Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., 71, American activist and advocate for people with disabilities.
* Conrad Hansen, 95, German pianist and a piano teacher.
* Darryl Kile, 33, Major League Baseball player (Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Cardinals), heart attack.
* Ron Kline, 70, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
* Eppie Lederer, 83, American media celebrity and advice columnist known by her pen name Ann Landers, multiple myeloma.
* Helen Nielsen, 83, American author and screen writer (Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents).
* Yoshio Okada, 75, Japanese football player.
* Cho Yoon-ok, 62, South Korean football player and manager.

### 23

* Lionel Bernstein, 82, South African anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner.
* Fadzil Noor, 63, Malaysian politician and religious teacher, complications following heart bypass surgery.
* Carlo Savina, 82, Italian composer and conductor.
* Alice Stewart, 95, British physician and epidemiologist.

### 24

* Larry Alcala, 75, Filipino editorial cartoonist and illustrator.
* Pedro Alcázar, 26, Panamanian boxer, injuries sustained during title fight.
* Robert Dorfman, 85, American economist.
* Doreen Fernandez, 67, Filipino writer, teacher, cultural historian, food critic and scholar.
* Bernard Longpré, 65, Canadian director and animator.
* Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, 86, 17th Duke of Norfolk.
* Frank Ripploh, 52, German actor, film director, and author, cancer.
* Pierre Werner, 88, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959–1974, 1979–1984), considered the "father of the euro".

### 25

* Syed Ali Ahsan, 82, Bangladeshi poet, writer and academic.
* Joe Antolick, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Gordon Park Baker, 64, American philosopher, focussing on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
* Turhan Baytop, 82, Turkish botanist and pharmacist.
* Jean Corbeil, 68, Canadian politician (Minister of Labour, Minister of Transport, member of Parliament).
* Derrek Dickey, 51, American basketball player and sportscaster (Cincinnati, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls), heart attack.

### 26

* Barbara G. Adams, 57, British egyptologist, cancer.
* Humaira Begum, 83, Afghan royal as the last queen consort of Afghanistan, heart failure.
* Arnold Brown, 88, British General of the Salvation Army.
* Donald A. Bullough, 74, British historian and author.
* Dolores Gray, 78, American actress and singer, heart attack.
* Martti Ketelä, 57, Finnish modern pentathlete.
* Henry Jepson Latham, 93, American attorney, politician, and jurist.
* Raoul Rémy, 82, French road bicycle racer.
* Dermot Walsh, 77, Irish actor (Richard the Lionheart, Sea of Sand, The Challenge).
* Philip Whalen, 78, American Beat generation poet and Zen Buddhist priest.
* Turgut Özatay, 74, Turkish film actor, lung cancer.

### 27

* Qu Bo, 79, Chinese novelist.
* Charles Frederick Carter, 82, British economist and academic administrator.
* John Entwistle, 57, English bassist (The Who), heart attack.
* Ralph Erickson, 100, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Richard Evonitz, 38, American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist, suicide by gunshot.
* Muharram Fouad, 68, Egyptian actor and singer, starred in Hassan and Nayima with co-star Soad Hosny.
* Russ Freeman, 76, American bebop and jazz pianist and songwriter.
* Robert L. J. Long, 82, American admiral.
* Georgi Sokolov, 60, Bulgarian football player.
* Timothy White, 50, American rock music journalist and editor (Crawdaddy!, Rolling Stone, Billboard), heart attack.

### 28

* Anatoly Akimov, 54, Soviet Olympic water polo player (gold medal winner in water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics).
* William Dufty, 86, American writer, musician, and activist (Lady Sings the Blues, Sugar Blues), cancer.
* Doug Elmore, 62, American professional football player (Ole Miss, Washington Redskins).
* François Périer, 82, French actor, heart attack.

### 29

* Terry Bourke, 62, Australian screenwriter, producer and director (Spyforce, Night of Fear, The Tourist).
* Rosemary Clooney, 74, American singer and actress ("Come On-a My House", "Hey There", "This Ole House"), lung cancer.
* Ole-Johan Dahl, 70, Norwegian computer scientist, considered one of the fathers of object-oriented programming.
* Alfred Dregger, 81, German politician and a leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
* Obby Kapita, 47, Zambian football player and coach, colorectal cancer.
* Roger Lévêque, 81, French road racing cyclist from 1946 to 1953.
* William Edward Ozzard, 87, American politician.
* Jaime Brocal Remohi, 66, Spanish comic book artist.
* Jan Tomasz Zamoyski, 90, Polish political activist, aristocrat and member of anti-Nazi underground resistance.

### 30

* Claude Berge, 76, French mathematician.
* Josef Buršík, 90, Czech resistance fighter, dissident, and political prisoner.
* W. Maxwell Cowan, 70, South African neurobiologist.
* Pete Gray, 87, American one-armed baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
* Nikolay Haytov, 82, Bulgarian fiction writer, playwright, and publicist, cancer.
* Raúl Sánchez, 71, Cuban-American baseball player (Washington Senators, Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds).
* Roberto Villa, 86, Italian actor (The Fornaretto of Venice), pancreatitis.
* Dave Wilson, 69, American television director (Saturday Night Live), aortic aneurysm.
* Chico Xavier, 92, Brazilian spiritual medium and author, acute heart attack.